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Ask HN: How to Set Consulting Rate?
I found a niche in New York and consult in the hospitality sector with a focus on the hospitality industry. I have a full-time job, but picked up two consulting gigs with a recurring income totaling about half my post-tax W2 income from my full-time job. I'm struggling to set my "consulting" rate. How do other consultants set their rate on here?
Originally, mostly for ideological reasons and because people simply followed the anti-Microsoft trend. Technologically, IE was not a bad browser when it was released and had quite a few advantages over Navigator/Communicator.

Of course, when Microsoft decided to abandon the whole thing and the competition (i.e. Mozilla) continued working on it, IE slowly lost these advantages.

So, down the line there were certainly also technological reasons why people were not too fond of it, but most of the dislike originated from said anti-Microsoft ideology. Of course, we are speaking here about 20ish years ago.
Yes, rooftop home solar doesn't make a ton of sense at this latitude and especially not adjacent to this much hydro power.
Awesome tool. I also struggle for creating videos about my product. Will give it a try
Are those actually the reasons tipping developed or just post hoc rationalizations now that it's solidified? I don't know the answer, but I'm wondering if you do.
small typo in the article https://research.google/pubs/benchmarking-jpeg-xl-lossylossl... (very interesting read!)
You also need the unreasonable barriers to entry for the scam to work. Otherwise new entrants would still drive down the price. So the FDA is doing its part to keep prices high.
"Bruce Tognazzini said ... " That's a wee bit trite. Every day billions of newly born/hatched/sprouted organisms do what is "baked in".

I have no idea how or why that particular baby (I assume you mean a human one) struggled to breastfeed. However you literally mention "premature baby".

I'll give a counter example or 10:

I have seen quite a few nature documentaries that involved birth and suckling or similar initial care, without any sign of learning. Last week I watched a sperm whale calf being born and then searching for and latching on a teat within around a minute. That's in the ocean. The baby weighs about a tonne and mum weighs about 15. She will be moving around and so does the ocean. Despite all that the baby manages to swim, locate a nipple, feed, surface to breathe and so on with minimal assistance.

Humans have hands and can pick up their offspring and direct all operations.

A kangaroo joey has to climb up mum and find the pouch, climb in and find the nipple. I recall that mum licks a trail for it to follow (or perhaps I've gone all ChatGPT - I'm not a biologist)

A random Apple employee is perhaps not best placed to make comparisons between computer interfaces and the natural world, involving birth. The very fact that you can read this comment, almost certainly means that you, when you were a new born baby was able to find your mother's teat and you did it without any prompting.
Coincidentally, this is exactly what XPath and XQuery do. E.g. text nodes don't have children nor attributes, yet it is perfectly legal to do text()/foo or text()/@foo - and the result is an empty sequence.

If you want this kind of semantics with JSON, take a look at https://www.jsoniq.org
I don't know if it's a good story for telling said friend, but the point would be to get out of the relationship before the cat eats you.
Renewables plus nuclear should be the way of the future. Nuclear power when renewables are not available and some sort of storage (pumped hydro, heat in salt etc) when renewables are active.
Compute please how much the land for a PV field will cost, vs. how much the PV equipment to go on it will cost. Do this for prime farmland, which might be $20K/acre, then do it for west Texas rangeland, which might be $1K/acre.

There is plenty of land. If the cost of land ever became a serious constraint on renewables, renewables will be so cheap they will have already relegated all other energy sources to museums.

As for future breakthroughs: solar and wind could be rolled out with existing storage, but of course improvements are welcome. But turn this around: investment in nuclear requires believing that such improvements won't occur. If they do, your nuclear investment is totally screwed. It won't even make back operating costs. Do you think betting the improvements won't occur is a reasonable bet? Do you think nuclear is going to get financing from hard nosed business types with that hanging over it?

Maybe you're just suggesting continued investment in nuclear R&D, in case all the renewable and storage technologies suddenly hit a brick wall. R&D has a low bar to justify it, so that's not a hard case to make.
Is running a generator for long periods cost effective? If someone lived where the grid wasn't reliable, and could make the initial investment for all this fuel storage stuff, why not do solar?
I saw down below that you’re not familiar with Vampr, which is very similar to what your screenshots suggest.

Moments like this always make me sad. Even a cursory web search would have surfaced Vampr, along with several other find-a-bandmate sites.

Weeks or even months of work because Googling was too much trouble.

So what happens now?

Do you let sunk cost dictate your actions and force you to continue working on an undifferentiated and far less feature-rich product?

Or do you stop working on your app and just start using Vampr?
The first edition is one of my favorite programming books. I'm not a big fan of youtube coding tutorials, and glad to see the author is still updating the bood instead of devoting to the youtube channel.
It doesn't sound like you understand what Private Equity means. Allow me to assist you in your quest for enlightenment.

>Private equity describes investment partnerships that buy and manage companies before selling them.
Pollution from burning coal (and other fossil fuels, but mostly coal) kills, depending on which estimate you believe, 10s of thousands, to millions of people per year, and that is completely ignoring impacts of climate change. Yes, even when you take into account accidents like Chernobyl, and even if you decide to accept the very highest of the total death estimates, it's still dramatically safer than coal.

Over-reacting to early nuclear disasters and failing to accelerate our build out and continuing with coal for the past nearly 80 years post Chernobyl is, in my opinion, one of the greatest civilizational mistakes humanity has made.
AWS CLI uses JMESPath.
I laughed. Then I laughed at the sound effects. Then I laughed at what happened when I left the tab open in the background.
Thanks! Hope you enjoy using it:)
> Apollo project shows that Big Events can still happen even when it's most eloquent proponent gets a bullet to the head.

If Sergei Korolev didn’t die suddenly and unexpectedly, the Soviets may have actually won the race to the moon. Their space program atrophied afterwards and struggled to succeed.

I really wonder at the modern obsession with associating people with cattle.
Are you a musician? Have you ever used a site like this?

My comments are literally based on the disappointments in using similar sites in the past. Most people don't add audio. Profiles without audio are useless. Making (and possibly providing minimal vetting?) people post audio would already be a big step in the right direction.
> It really is a shame that he ended up getting violent, because "Industrial Society and Its Future" is one of the most interesting, insightful, and fascinating things I've read. I recommend it to everyone.

It's pseudo-profound, but not really insightful at all. It's the kind of writing that seems brilliant to people going through difficult times in life or edgy teenagers who are angry at the world, but to be blunt it falls flat for people who are well-adjusted and thriving.

That's the crux of that type of writing: Ranting about the world in pseudo-profound prose is always going to feel brilliant to people who are struggling with something and want to identify with others who are also struggling, but that doesn't make it insightful or good writing.

> For anyone who doesn't know, Ted Kaczynski was the Unabomber and his solution to the problem of technology was basically to destroy the entire system by wiping it out in a way that leaves no ability for humans to resume technological progress, and violence was his way of beginning the societal destruction part. From a purely theoretical/philosophical view it makes logical sense,

Treating his writings and actions as two separate, unrelated things is really downplaying the manifesto. The fact that he took the ideas he wrote down and came to the logical conclusion that violence and destruction were the way forward should tell you something about his writings. Specifically, that they were hyperbolically incorrect.

To be honest, the way that you're identifying with his writings and thinking that even his actions make "logical sense" suggests that you may need to take a step back and reevaluate. It seems his prose got its hooks into you, but it's not actually brilliant content.
In terms of everything keeping health care costs sky high, you are correct. What I outlined is the tip of the iceberg, if the iceberg was Antarctica.
Searching for "coal pollution death europe" would give:

https://www.wwf.mg/?272333/Dark%2DCloud

> It reveals that in 2013 their emissions were responsible for over 22,900 premature deaths, ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/air-pollut...

> Pollution from Europe’s coal plants responsible for ‘up to 34,000 deaths each year’

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abecff

> The health burden of European [coal power] emission-induced PM2.5, ..., amounts to at least 16 800 (CI95 14 800–18 700) excess deaths per year over the European domain.

Chernobyl's total death toll is estimated somewhere between thousands and tens of thousands: in other words, even assuming the worst number for Chernobyl, in every year or two, coal kills the same number of Europeans as Chernobyl ever did. The number may be as low as a few months.
It’s like getting your gutters cleaned. You’re just going to have contractors that come by once or twice a year to clean out your panels.
The point is that your whole "own your car" is just a personal preference, not an imperative.
We are talking executives here, it's their job to organize teams and work in a way to achieve stated objectives. This is reality for every higher-up position and one of the reasons they are the way they are, etc.

I see some devs thinking I was talking about them and getting defensive :) It's not a "we discover a bug, we fire you" situation, that's ridiculous.
Destruction of property value by an accident is a real cause for legal action even if you consider it irrational.

Shellenberger is not a credible source. He's the person who assured us PV is bad because it uses rare earth elements (it does not.)
That would be grounds for class action lawsuits. Microsoft would have to be super, super dumb for this to be true.
Seems like the best way forward would be to give some smaller amount, lets say $30,000 to the one in need and let them shop around for the best solution and keep the (probably still sizable) difference
Models sizes are listed here https://github.com/abi/secret-llama but yeah, > 4GB for the Llama 3 model.
Well “the state of things” is that Microsoft is the world’s most valuable company by market cap. So clearly they’re doing something right, even if they have a history of poor security going back decades - way before any kind of diversity bias was the norm.

Anyway, I read as much of the linked article as I could stomach, but I gave up at this point:

> When I began my career, I believed that the systems for determining who got a job or a promotion at a company like Microsoft at least aimed at an ideal of meritocracy

I have had these conversations with fuckhead managers in the past. How the hell can we have a meritocracy when non-cis-white-males have far less opportunity to gain the resume points necessary to compete? “Meritocracy” in this sense is, at best, nothing more than a cover for conservatism.

A historical lack of diversity obviously has a compounding effect on the skills of a population and the only way to fix that historical wrong is to promote people who would not otherwise have had that opportunity.

Instead of railing against diversity quotas, maybe instead you could think about why the fuck they are necessary in the fist place?
Dutch bicycle infrastructure didn’t just happen, our postwar governments were all set on building car infrastructure. They were even planning to demolish huge parts of old Amsterdam to build a highway right through the city. It took two decades of protest and a lot of traffic deaths before the government started the development of dedicated bicycle infrastructure in the 1980’s. You can read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...

Amsterdam’s answer to faster vehicles is to move them to the main road with other faster traffic. Although it is now moving to slow down nearly all traffic inside the city to a 30km/h limit, which will improve cyclist safety a lot.
I would say the risk tolerance with nuclear should be very low. It’s going to take one major disaster to ruin hundreds of thousands of square miles of land for the foreseeable future if something goes wrong.
Woodstock 1999
It would be a service to non-Lisp users if someone could describe why this matters. Is this debug pretty-printing?
If anyone is dumb enough to trust Microsoft after all the shit they've pulled over the last 30+ years, including the most recent collection of large-scale security fuckups, they deserve what they get.
They do not. I just was fitted for one. I asked "how much is this retail, out the door, cash?"

$24,000.

So if Medicare is paying $65k, something is seriously wrong.
That same VR can motivate people to insist on closing the borders - this would most likely be easier than getting them to donate to to some faraway 'crisis'.

Opening people's eyes is a good thing. Or?
No.

It's meant to develop confidence.
I was talking about executives and high ranking managers, not devs. Firing someone for a bug or honest mistake would be ridiculous.
Solar panels approximate an international market for clean electricity (there's just quite some lag).
Just that in this case the end-customer is a person that could shop around for what he/she needs. Such a competitive market would instantly vaporate the current, rent-seeking margins
You just need to get super aggressive with anti-trust actions.

Any company with more than 25% market share in a category gets broken up. Period. At all levels.

This prevents the "12 companies all buying from the single upstream supplier" problem.
Totally agree this is something the world needs to investigate together. That's why Grusch asked DOPSR for clearance to talk about the 1933 Magenta, Italy crash. Him and Elizondo have been working with Italian government officials regarding the official reports of the crash.

But, ultimately, I think one of the major powers has to own up to the reverse engineering programs for this to be taken seriously by the public.
This all kinda feels like the consumer version of that investor-state dispute settlement clause that they tried to sneak into TTIP that one time.
99% of people could probably build up to it easily with consistent training.

That's only 24 miles per week of running.

Most people could probably get to that level of fitness within a year.
I mean, go back far enough and people used to own black people and thought women weren't fit to vote. The extraordinary claim here would be that everything was resolved by the 90s
as someone who is also struggling to find work i feel quite fortunate that i am not facing depression yet. in part this is thanks to family and friends that i was able to find after moving to a new place with friendlier people. in part because i am a citizen of a country with a strong safety net so that i know i won't have to face homelessness even if i won't ever again find new work.

what frustrates me is that i don't feel i can combine working and job/project searching. it's either one or the other. when i am working on a project (either paid or a side project for myself) then i can't focus on searching work, and when i am out of work i feel that i can't afford work on a side project because i need to focus on searching work.

i mean i suppose i could rotate. but while i don't have work i always feel like i am not doing enough to find more work, and i can't code while i have that on my mind. even now while i have a paid project, while i know i should be looking for followup projects once this one is done, i can't do that because thinking about that interferes with my ability to code. coding takes 100% focus (and i do enjoy that) so while i am working nothing else gets done.
Lots of different ecosystems. Mamba + docker are great though. Pip is ok. Apt works, but we were using the same thing in 2006. If these different bits didn't exist, and have ChatGPT telling me that they exist then most work wouldn't get done...so there's that.
Bear is the app you need.

It’s paid, your notes are in a database (easily exportable as .txt), but I’ve used it for years and years and it’s one of those rare apps that ‘just works’.

And it’s something like $25 a year. Utterly reasonable.
You don’t have to believe, I read the whole goddamned linked “article”, and parent misrepresented even that. There was a VP that approved promotions, but no particular requirement just for straight white males. That’s just one example of parent’s BS. They got other stuff from the link wrong, too.
I also had similar concerns. Their voyager keyboard should solve that concern and I’m strongly considering using it. I’ve had their Planck EZ for maybe 2 years now (on Dvorak) and later got their Moonlander but I think it was too much for me and went back to the Planck shortly after.

Ben Vallack has a good video on the voyager[^0] and many other setups and workflows

[0]: https://youtu.be/dg2TT1OJlQs?si=vNM6fOK7ua9KCIky
Utilization is not going to be 100% --- ever. Discounts are often given, and servers break down, etc.
If you’re looking for more Grimm fairy tales, there are some: there was another brother, Ferdinand, apparently the black sheep of the family. He also published fairy tales, but was largely forgotten. Some of his tales were rediscovered and published (in German) in 2020. I read a few and they sound like authentic Grimm.

https://www.aufbau-verlage.de/die-andere-bibliothek/der-frem...
Imo it just all stems from seeking maximum profits - externalizing environmental damage is just one facet of it. If China enacted strict penalties for environmental damage and it'd be cheaper to manufacture panels in Texas while polluting there, I don't have a doubt we'd build all of our panels in Texas.
I think it's unclear because the examples are simple enough that you could easily reproduce them with generators.

I think the ball example (https://github.com/manuel/delimgen/blob/main/demo/balls.html) is maybe the most helpful to look at. It provides an abstraction over the wrapped generator which allows you to inject events into the generator. You could do this with generators alone, but this syntax lets you write it more like synchronous code (and has the added benefit of not being "coloured" by async/await). The `run` method essentially allows you to pass of handling of a continuous process so you don't need to worry about the orchestration of concurrent tasks. In this case, ball is able to move itself around the document as soon as it's yielded, and the implementation details of that behaviour are totally hidden from where the event is injected.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around how I'd use delimited continuation in more practical ways, so I might be misunderstanding quite badly. It seems to me that generators themselves are a form of continuation, and we often create delimited continuations when we implement programs with generators. In this case, the library essentially ties the loose ends by reifying the continuation as a function. In this case, the function is what provides the synchronous-like syntax as well.
One way you could track updates to their ToS is via https://monitoro.co

Disclosure: I work on it.
> Yes, rooftop home solar doesn't make a ton of sense at this latitude and especially not adjacent to this much hydro power.

I know people in Seattle who run their entire house off solar for 6-8 months on the year (important now that AC is increasingly needed around here...) and who don't fully deplete the credit they've saved up with the power company until January.

Also only Seattle gets the majority of their energy Hydro Power, anyone in King County but outside of Seattle is getting a mix[1] including around 46% from coal + natural gas.

https://www.pse.com/en/pages/energy-supply/electric-supply
Which argument specifically? Your sarcastic overtone make it difficult to detect an actual argument.

Your general remark that Polish art disappeared from Poland is true. Your implication that only Germany was responsible for that is wrong. The german state is generally cooperative, in contrast to the ex-soviet states, in giving back and trying to find solutions. Even from the private side is cooperation - some time ago some private owner gave back art to Poland, which rarely happens.

You did not provide a source for your claim that "German government is kind enough to let Poles bid for the art they carelessly lost".
You can see the physical activity guidelines mentioned here: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...

Note that these are minimums and that there's really no ceiling on getting benefits in the literature so long as you increase volume and intensity in a sustainable way and are eating and sleeping enough to sufficiently recover.
I think you can hack together something in pdf.js but you have to deal with the pain of digging through its code. I’m working on something of the sort in an application I’ve built but it’s v much “nice to have”.

If you’re talking about raw pdfs then you are at the whim of the encoding surely? I’ve always found Adobe etc to have utterly crap searches
Probably an exception in the "reason" for clicking hyperlinks, is what came to mind.

Of course another reply notes the clear external vs. internal link approach of wikipedia, too.
So high that it bankrupted a huge number of producers. What is so confusing?
I'm saying that having less children is not necessarily good for the environment.
That isn't the "actual article" by any stretch. A corporate blog post and an article from an online news outlet are different things.
Welcome to American healthcare. I bought a CPAP machine for $800 cash about 10 years ago but signed paperwork saying it cost $2500 and assigning them the right to collect from my insurer. I had none at the time. Don't know if the billed Medi-Cal on my behalf [scratches chin].
Ask HN: Let's list every notable LLM or other ML repo or model
There are so many LLMs and other Machine Learning GitHub repos and huggingface downloads

Which are the actually good ones, in 2024?

List GitHub repos or huggingface links for LLM and other kinds of ML, that are usable and produce good output to a degree that you’re personally happy to be using in 2024
That's funny because it's about installing Office 97, and if you used Office 97 today you probably wouldn't miss anything from 27 years of new versions. So the use case is still there!
Also fun, in Oklahoma, most (2/3rds or so) of the certified professionals who do the fittings are employees of NSM or NuMotion.
People with gas and propane stoves breathe more unhealthy nitrogen dioxide
They also prioritize price, especially at the low end. If sodium batteries are significantly cheaper, it will be used to produce low cost devices.
Sony and Apollo send letter expressing interest in $26B Paramount buyout
The Barbell Medicine podcast has a three-part series on cardio you should check out.